In 1924, the largest job ever constructed under union conditions in the jurisdiction of Local 103 employed about 300 members at the new Edison Power Station at North Weymouth. Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. was the contractor. Lunchtime activities were boxing exhibitions between trades as the workers lined the sides of the fuel containment pits. I understand an odds-on favorite pugilist of the tradesmen was Brother Joe Slattery, who made as much money from fisticuffs as he did as an electrician on this job.

Many of Local 103 future officers were in the 1924 Apprenticeship class, Eddie Cunningham, Freddie Sheehan, Walter Monahan, Jimmy Rawson, Ed Smith, Henry Hurford, Jr., Morris Berkowitz, and John Gilmour.

Another event which was to have a long lasting effect on the welfare of Local 103 members was the formation of the IBEW Research Department in 1924, the first in any National union. The new Department "collected, interpreted, and related" wage and hour reports from locals around the country and forwarded these figures to Local Unions engaged in negotiations. The Research Department also forwarded information of studies of job hazards in the electrical industry, analyses of financial structure of corporations, and investigations of the problem of displacement of men by machines.

In January 1925, the Local Union celebrated its 25th Anniversary. The Committee were its elected officers; Frank L. Kelley, President; Stephen J. Murphy, Vice President; Theodore Gould, Treasurer; Frank R. Sheehan, Recording Secretary; John T. Fennell, Financial Secretary; and Business Agents, John J. Regan and Major Capelle. The Arrangement Committee was Ed C. Carroll, Ed Leeman, Rudy Marginot, Bill Ralph, James Kilroe, James Nichols, Sam Parker, and James Horan, (whose son William arranged the 75th, 85th and 90th Anniversaries of Local 103).

The affair was held at Scenic Auditorium and no liquor was served because of Prohibition. The next few were to be bigger and better bashes after Prohibition was ended.